Allen Simpson
@allen_m_simpson
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CEO, @ukhofficial. Business strategy, economic development, International trade & FDI. Ex London & Partners, London Stock Exchange and Barclays.
Maidstone and London
Joined December 2011
Launching our budget campaign. The country needs jobs. Hospitality creates them. But we’re being #TaxedOut. Get involved below👇.
Hospitality is the beating heart of our economy and communities, but we’re being #TaxedOut. We are calling on the Gov't to act in the Budget. ✅Lower business rates.✅Fix NICs.✅Cut VAT. We’re making our voice heard & we need yours too. Find out more 👉
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A point on this. The coverage says 200k a restaurant run by the state. A small restaurant may pay 50k a year in business rates. So - maths - it’s the entirety of the rates bill of four restaurants for every one of these state funded places. That’s clearly incredibly stupid.
“Figures have suggested that more than one in 10 restaurants are at risk of closure this year following the Chancellor’s Budget and NIC hike. More than 4,000 restaurants were forced to shut last year.”
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This is very much the point.
Obviously the GDP data is noisy but worth flagging that if GDP is basically flat this year (as it is) then GDP/capita will be even worse.
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Genuinely rather sad . #TaxedOut.
National Trust to cull at least 550 jobs in a cost-cutting drive to save £26m after Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s first budget pushed up labour costs.
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These data from the BBPA show exactly the same story within pubs as we are seeing with the rest of the hospitality sector. Jobs being #TaxedOut. @EmmaMcClarkin @AltonSteven @UKHospKate.
We estimated that 378 pubs – more than one a day - will close this year across England, Wales, and Scotland, which would amount to more than 5,600 direct job losses. @Will_LJ spoke to the @BBCr4today about how to change this sad state of affairs. We’re calling on Government.
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Economies are complex, and this is partly tariffs and geopolitics. But it is also, without question, the impact of the Budget. Join our #TaxedOut campaign here👇.
GDP fell 0.1% in May 2025 but grew 0.5% in the three months to May. Services grew (+0.1%) in May but production (-0.9%) and construction (-0.6%) both fell. Read more ➡️
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RT @CB_Hotels: We very much support @UKHofficial #TaxedOut campaign and encourage all our hospitality colleagues to get behind the campaign….
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Incontrovertible. Before: 18,000 jobs created. After: 69,000 jobs lost. We need jobs, hospitality creates them. But we’re being #TaxedOut.
Last year, hospitality was creating thousands of jobs. But since the Budget we’ve been losing them. We need change, before we are #TaxedOut. Learn more about the campaign and how you can get involved here:
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RT @UKHofficial: Last year, hospitality was creating thousands of jobs. But since the Budget we’ve been losing them. We need change, befo….
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Team #TaxedOut. Reminder to write to your MP if you haven’t already. It actually does make a difference. MPs partly judge issues by how much mail they get. We’ve made it easy for you here👇.
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Team #TaxedOut. Second poster is downloadable at the link below. The first one was about detail. This is about the message.
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RT @allen_m_simpson: @O1NK_ Yes!. We are going to be making more, but you can download our first one here:.
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69,000 jobs lost in hospitality since the budget. Run the simulation forward and you quickly get to over 150,000 jobs. We need to get people off of benefit and paying tax. But the budget has done the opposite. We’re being #TaxedOut . @UKHospKate .
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